End-gate for wagons



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, D. B. BAUDER. END GATE FOR WAGONSP Patented Jan. 17, 1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIcE.

DAVID B. eaonne, or 'MENOMINEE, MICHIGAN.

END-GATE FQR WAGONSL SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.252,415, dated January 17, 1882.

Application filed July 2, 1881. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID B. BAUDER, of

. Menominee, in the county of Menominee and of the end of the Wagon-boxwith the gate re-' moved, and Fig. 3 is an end view of the wagoir boxand gate.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

My invention con templates an improved construction of end-gates forwagons, as hereinafter morefully setforth, and particularly pointed .outin the claim.

In the annexed drawings, Arepresents the wagon box or body, and B theend-gate. The sides of the former are provided with cleats a a, formingvertical ways for. the insertion of the gate, which has also a pair ofcleats, b b. Each of the outermost cleats, a, of the wagonbox has alongitudinal slot or recess, a, which 7 scribed, in combination with thewagon-box A,

is spanned by a staple, d. 1

Upon the cleats b b of the end-gate B are pivoted upon -bolts e the gatelooks or fastening devices, each of which consists of an arm, (J, bentor curved at its outer end to form a convenient handle, 0, and a hookedpart, D, bentinto a semicircular shape, with its point or outer end alittle out of the true. circle, so as to operate in the natureof aneccentric when the arm orhandle O O is turned.

Below the locking devices 0 D are inserted into the cleats bbeveledstops E, or equivalent all jarring or rattling.

devices for preventing arm from slipping back when in the lockedposition, represented in Fig. 3. The bevel of the stop readily permitsarm 0 to slip past it in fastening the gate,

of my invention will readily be understood.

After the gate has been inserted at the end of the wagon-box, betweenthe verticalcleats a a, it is fastened or locked by turning down thearms 0 O, causing the hooked part D to enter.

the slot c and interlock with its staple d. The convex side of thecurved part 1), entering the slot or recess 0 and bearing against itsbottom,

binds the gate firmly on both sides and avoids 1 am aware that it is oldto employ hooked levers adapted to lock the gate in position, and toemploy slotted cleats secured to the vehicle-body to receive theend-gate, and to provide said cleats with staples separate from itsslots to receive the hooks on the lockinglevers.

Havingthus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States- I The end-gate B, having cleats I),provided with the stops E, or their equivalent, and pivoted lock-leversO O D, constructed as dehaving cleats ac, slotted or recessed at c, andprovided with the staples d, substantially as and for thepurpose hereinshown and-set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I'have hereuntoatfixed my signature -in presence of two witnesses.

DAVID BENONA BAUDER.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL W. ABBOTT, OSCAR M. SAxToN.

